Four Months of Collective Learning, Creative Play and Transformation

Are you passionate about building sustainable intentional communities?
Join us for a 4-month transformational journey in Tamera, with other proactive community builders and researchers to explore trust and creativity as essential elements of communal life.

Overview

This 4-month program combines theoretical and  experiential learning with hands-on community service. Participants will gain insights into the magic of Tamera’s vision, explore the transformative role of trust and creativity, and develop leadership skills in a co-creative, experimental environment.

Through this program you’ll form a group with other participants, dive into the intense endeavor of community building and engage in the  healing biotope movement.

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for:

• Community builders and researchers seeking to deepen their practice.
• Individuals passionate about trust, love and creativity in communal contexts.
• Those ready to step into leadership roles within intentional communities.

What you’ll learn

• Principles of sustainable community building.
• How trust, love and creativity transform a community.
• Leadership skills and co-creative practices.
• The vision and political theory behind Tamera Healing Biotope I.

As participant, you can join our morning offers, which can include things like Yoga and Qi Gong. You’ll also be able to join in whole community events, like our Sunday matinee, the Ring of Power and Political Cafes.

Course Content

• Conceptual explorations within themes such as: field theory, healing biotopes, and expanding trust.
• Hands-on service projects within Tamera’s community.
• Opportunities for co-creation and leadership development.
• Reflection and dialogue on key themes such as love, sexuality, creativity and community building.
• Experimental spaces of artistic self-expression, disidentification and self-discovery (SD).

Course Intensity

The course spans four months and includes three main components:

• Regular weekly meetings:
  • 2-3 times per week
  • averaging 6-10 hours per week
  • combining study, creative exploration, and community building.
• Intensive periods:
  • lasting 3-5 days each (to be scheduled according to the needs and availability of the group participants)
  • focus on deep engagement, trust building and stepping out of normality.
• Community service:
  • requiring 15-25 hours weekly
  • involving practical tasks, intensive work, and communal contribution
  • using practical collaboration as the ground for learning and growing together.

Overall we aim to balance learning and doing, expressing and absorbing, being and doing, giving and receiving. We intend to plan the schedule in a way that allows time for professionals to work online to sustain their existing commitments. This will be a dynamic puzzle that will require the whole group’s collaboration.

Pre-requisites

As a participant you need to have:

• Already participated in at least one on-site course in Tamera
• A solid foundation in Tamera so that you are well-prepared for the challenges and opportunities this course will present.

You also need to be willing to:

• Commit to at least 2 months, ideally for the whole stretch.
• Reflect deeply on your role in community building.
• Commit to engage in the full intensity of the program (outlined above).
• Explore and practice principles of community in a group setting (e.g. reliable participation, transparency & consent culture, inclusion, mutual support).
• Bear witness to the challenges of our world.
• Be open to learning and dialogue.
• Share responsibility for the quality of our common spaces.